Religion Notes: June 22

Saturday

Jun 22, 2013 at 9:47 AM

GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN

Graham to speak at Singing on Mountain

Will Graham, executive director of the Billy Graham Training Center at The Cove and vice president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, will speak at the 89th annual Singing on the Mountain at Grandfather Mountain beginning at 8:30 a.m.

Sunday.

Graham, 38, is the son of Franklin Graham and the grandson of the world-famous evangelist Billy Graham.

Both Graham's father and grandfather have spoken at previous Singing on the Mountain Sundays, Billy Graham in 1962 and Franklin Graham in 1993 and 1999.

The usual June slot for the event was moved to August when Billy Graham first spoke in 1962 to help accommodate the traveling evangelist's busy touring schedule.

Will Graham began his ministry with youth-oriented, one-day events in Canada. He has spoken to audiences across North America, Australia and India as well as parts of Asia and South America, converting tens of thousands of people to Christianity.

“This opportunity to be a part of Singing on the Mountain is special to me for a couple different reasons,” Graham said in a news release.

“First, it is always a unique blessing when I get to follow in the footsteps of my dad or grandfather, who have both spoken as part of this great tradition on Grandfather Mountain.”

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Fair to preach at Montreat on Sunday

Montreat Conference Center continues its 2013 Summer Services for the Lord’s Day by welcoming the Rev. Dr. Fairfax F. Fair as guest preacher at 10:30 a.m. Sunday in Anderson Auditorium.

Fair is pastor/head of staff at the First Presbyterian Church of Ann Arbor, Mich. Her sermon title, “God Gone to Meddlin’ ” is based on lectionary passages from I Kings 19 and Luke 8, which include stories of the Old Testament prophet Elijah and the healings of Jesus in the Gospel writings.

As the pastor of a large church adjacent to the University of Michigan’s Central campus, Fair considers it her responsibility and privilege to minister not only to her congregation, but also to the university’s diverse student body of 40,000.

Growing up in south Arkansas, Fair had no role models of female pastors, though she says she can, in retrospect, “recall urgings of the Spirit calling me into the ministry when I was a teenager.”

Later, when her young husband was diagnosed with terminal cancer, “I knew that it was not medical school that God had in mind for me — but the seminary.”

All Sunday worship services are held in Anderson Auditorium with child care available for children 6 months through kindergarten age at the Updike Child Care Center on Texas Road. All are invited to attend.